Sell Wine

We are actively seeking consignments for our upcoming Live Fine & Rare wine auctions and ongoing online auctions. If you have well stored wines that you’d like to liquidate, or if you would just like to know the value of your collection, we’d like you to consider us your expert advocate and partner. Let WineGavel help you sell your valuable assets.

For those of you who are new to consigning wines at auction, or if you’d like to know more about the WineGavel consignment process, we’ve prepared a short guide for you…

Appraisal and Consignment Agreement

The first step is to send us a list of the wines you are considering to sell with details on storage conditions and provenance to consignments@winegavel.com, fax at 415.742.8035 or mail to 580 California Street, Suite 513, San Francisco, CA 94104. Then, we draw an appraisal detailing the Reserve (minimum bid), Low Estimate, and High Estimate for each bottle. This pricing is based on current market pricing for your wines. Once you have approved the appraisal, we will begin making logistical arrangements for your wines. From there we draw up a consignment agreement showing the details of the consignment, including: rights to sell your wines, sales date, shipping costs, payments and fees, etc.

Arrange Shipping

We will use our broad network of transportation vendors to safely and efficiently transport your wine to our secure, climate controlled warehouse in Napa, CA. Unlike some other auction houses who try to make a profit on inbound shipments and/or have endless fees and charges for inbound processing, WineGavel charges only our costs, and we charge no "stocking" or "inventory" fees.

Inspection

All consignments need to be in our warehouse prior to the auction date so they can be properly inspected, and properly marketed to our buyers. Wine Gavel specialists will inspect every bottle to ensure proper condition, and authenticity and to catalog conditions that will be noted for the information of the buyers.

Sell Your Wines

We will place your wines into one of our multiple sales channels, through our live auction format or into our ongoing online auctions. For the live format, we have locale clientele who attend the auction in person, but we also have the auction be streamed live on our website, where people from the US, Europe, and the Far East can bid in real time as if they were there in person, thus increasing the amount of buyers and the potential for receiving the best price for your lot. For our ongoing, online auction your wine is expedited to our next available auction for speed of sale and continued, maximum exposure to our network of buyers. Remember, regardless of sales strategy we are your partners and advocates to receive the highest price in our auctions so we not only do marketing via our catalog or online auctions, but there is much lead-in marketing done in advance to our buyers database of thousands of wine collectors throughout the world.

Fees and Payment

WineGavel offers a very competitive seller�s commission rate, often much lower than other auction houses. The seller�s commission will vary dependent upon the unique characteristics of each individual consignment. The buyer pays a premium of 19% on their purchase, still lower than most of our peers which help attract even more buyers to our consignors' wines. In terms of payment, WineGavel offer terms that are in line or better than industry standard.

Consign Your Wines to WineGavel

Phone:800.774.2130 Option 1 "Consignments & Appraisals"

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Provide us with a list of wines you are interested in selling. We will get back to you with estimated values. You may either upload a file (such as a spreadsheet or document containing a list of wines), or if you have a shorter list, type the names into the box below. Whether you are uploading a file or typing below, Be sure to include vintage, wine name, bottle size and quantity for each wine.